The Caribbean's Feuding Fathers of Literature

Summer reading and the legacies of Derek Walcott and V. S. Naipaul

Is your summer over yet or do you still feel a few more weeks of possibility?

For many of us, this summer has been impossibly hot, miserable and terrifying. While September beckons, somehow autumn still feels far away. Yet somehow, still, summer Sundays feel looser and freer than weekends do the rest of the year: a time for watching baseball, reading b…